Satan in literature
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Many writers have incorporated the character of Satan into their works. Among the most famous are:
- Dante Alighieri's Inferno (1321)
- Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (1604)
- Joost van den Vondel's Lucifer (1654)
- John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667)
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Faust (Part 1, 1808; Part 2, 1832)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850)
- Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1867)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov (1880)
- Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger (1916)
- Robert Louis Stevenson's Markheim (1925)
- William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)
- Giosuè Carducci's Hymn to Satan (1865)
- Charles Baudelaire's Litanies of Satan (1857)
- Aleister Crowley's Hymn to Lucifer
- Anatole France's The Revolt of the Angels (1953)
- Mark Twain's Letters from the Earth (1909)
- Steven Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
- Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus (1947)
- Imre Madach's The Tragedy of Man (1862)
- John A. De Vito's The Devil's Apocrypha (2002)
- Glen Duncan's I, Lucifer (2003)
- Steven Brust's To Reign in Hell: A Novel (2000)
- William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954)
- Robert Bloch's That Hell-Bound Train (1959)
- Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (1995)
- Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (1967)
- Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series (1983-1990)
- Robert A. Heinlein's Job: a Comedy of Justice (1984)
- Isaac Asimov’s Magical Worlds of Fantasy #8: Devils, an anthology of 18 fantasy short stories edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin Greenburg, and Charles Waugh (1987)
- Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins's Left Behind series (1995-present)
- Anne Rice's Memnoch the Devil (1996)
- Eoin Colfer's The Wish List (2000)
- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens (1990)
- William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist
- Bernard Werber's Cycle of Gods
